Uttarakhand: A 55-year-old cancer patient who tested positive for Covid-19 two days ago died – india News

Dehradun: A 55-year-old cancer patient who was undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Shikesh and tested positive for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) died on Saturday morning.

This is the second death of a Covid-19 positive patient in Uttarakhand, where Comberbidity is the cause of death and does not contract SARS-CV-2, which causes the disease.

Ravi Kant, director, AIIMS, IM Shikesh, said the death of a female patient in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, was not due to Covid-19 but to cancer in the food pipe.

A bulletin from the state health department reported that the woman died of esophageal carcinoma due to type 2 respiratory failure.

On May 1, a 56-year-old woman from Nainital district who tested Covid-19 at AI Shikesh, AIIMS, died, but officials said she had previously suffered a brain haemorrhage, so she lost her life.

He died of a stroke due to a decrease in normal blood flow to the heart, according to a health bulletin released by the state government.

In Uttarakhand, 20 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported on Saturday, bringing the total to 173. Most of the new cases have been made by migrant workers who have returned to the mountainous state amid easing lockdown restrictions.